Books Quote by Alejandro Zambra

Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and…

— Stephen Dobyns

You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.

— Tom Verlaine

In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself…

— Herta Muller

One thing I really want to explore is writing.

— Lisa Kudrow

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

— Daphne Gottlieb

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row,…

— Ron Rash

Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms,…

— Adriana Trigiani

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

— Alejandro Zambra

I write poems to find out why I write them

— Stephen Dobyns

For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.

— William Least Heat-Moon